Slipping through my fingers

[00:02.40] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[00:10.37] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile

[00:17.80] I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness

[00:26.04] And I have to sit down for a while

[00:31.35] The feeling that I'm losing her forever

[00:39.05] And without really entering her world

[00:45.96] I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter

[00:51.55] That funny little girl

[00:55.52] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[00:58.97] I try to capture every minute

[01:04.02] The feeling in it

[01:06.15] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:09.60] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[01:12.52] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[01:17.57] She keeps on growing

[01:20.22] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[01:26.07] Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table

[01:33.63] Barely awake, I let precious time go by

[01:42.41] Then when she's gone, there's that odd melancholy feeling

[01:49.32] And a sense of guilt I can't deny

[01:55.69] What happened to the wonderful adventures

[02:02.86] The places I had planned for us to go?

[02:07.64] (Slipping through my fingers all the time)

[02:10.04] Well, some of that we did but most we didn't

[02:15.08] And why? I just don't know

[02:19.60] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:22.78] I try to capture every minute

[02:28.09] The feeling in it

[02:30.22] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:33.67] Do I really see what's in her mind?

[02:36.86] Each time I think I'm close to knowing

[02:41.91] She keeps on growing

[02:44.04] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[02:48.29] Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture

[02:55.45] And save it from the funny tricks of time

[03:00.24] Slipping through my fingers

[03:03.69] 🎵💞💫

[03:28.13] Slipping through my fingers all the time

[03:34.23] Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning

[03:42.47] Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile